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    GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon R9 280

    GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 7 Nov 2013
    GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    Radeon R9 280
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 4 Mar 2014
    Radeon R9 280

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      163%
    • Radeon R9 280
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    Around 63% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280

    50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti .
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon R9 280
    GPU NameGK110B (GK110-425-B1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size561 mm²vs352 mm²
    Transistors7,080 millionvs4,313 million
    Shaders2880vs1792
    Compute Units15vs28
    Core clock875 MHzvs827 MHz
    ROPs48vs32
    TMUs240vs112

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon R9 280
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit
    Memory Speed1750 MHz
    7000 MHz effective    		vs1250 MHz
    5000 MHz effective
    Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon R9 280
    TDP250 wattsvs200 watts
    Release Date7 Nov 2013vs4 Mar 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      52.50 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      29.86 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      210.00 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      104.50 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      336.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 280
      240.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      5040.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 280
      3344.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      16040
    • Radeon R9 280
      9790

    Points (higher is better)

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